Often in teambuilding exercises the facilitator for the various tables with people that are broken into groups for role play are told to check their egos at the door. In other words equal participation and everyone contributing their weight with their own unique personality and not dominating anyone else. I have found loud people think because they are loud they can dominate. Never affects me however but does many others. But with our real estate clients across the table from them or in our vehicles or in your personal relationships we need to
Check Our UNHEALTHY Ego At The Door.
Why is this necessary? Well, you want HIGH emotional intelligence, something sorely lacking in most people.
It means you have high self-esteem, you handle the quirks of others with aplomb, and ABOVE ALL not being unhealthy with your ego you stave off these four useless needs that EASILY can hold you back from being a GREAT person. They are truly energy vampires to our life. Get rid of
- ENVY - discontent with the advantages, success, possessions, status of another and you perceive yourself LACKING compared to them
- SPITE - a malicious desire to harm another, being bitter, to offend or ignore someone so you will feel better or bizarrely they will feel worse
- NEED TO PROVE YOURSELF - you are thinking you are not ok just as you are, coming from a point of being deficient compared to another, when all along you are just fine right where you are today
- CONSTANT WORRY ABOUT HOW OTHERS PERCEIVE YOU - you have to face in life it is a fact you will not please all the people all the time. You will be miserable if you try to do this or go insane trying. Let go of other's opinions about you
Being EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY should be a solid goal for all of us, with checking out those bad qualities a strong ego can lead us to. Many REALTORS with their big prima donna egos that say I am better than the next person are FULL of these energy vampires in business and in their personal lives. Don't you be one of them!!
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